Word: elder
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...important public figure" in the future. One former Nixon associate does not rule out the possibility that the former president might decide to run again for some public office but thinks it more likely that what Nixon has in mind is an active role as an elder statesman. (Emphasis added...
...Dodgers are favored to take the elder ieague's title over the Pittsburgh Pirates who clinched the Eastern championship on Wednesday over the St. Louis Cardinals by a one-game margin. While the Pirates-Cards race was a close one, both teams would have finished no better than tied for third and fourth, respectively, in the Western division...
...aloofness only augmented Hartmann's longstanding reputation for brusqueness and abrasiveness. After he became a Counsellor to the President, his father, Miner Hartmann, 85, sent him a vial of silicon carbide, which is used in grinding steel. "You grew up on it," explained an accompanying note from the elder Hartmann, a patent attorney in Beverly Hills, Calif., and former chemist who once directed research for the Carborundum Co. Even Wife Roberta concedes that Hartmann "does not have time to be as tactful as some people would wish." But he can also be garrulous and genial, particularly while reminiscing with...
...moves on to a Cabinet post. Rockefeller, on the other hand, would probably be the last to admit that he is too old to run. Refusing to tell reporters last week whether he intended to make another try for the presidency, he reminded them of a couple of very elder statesmen. "Did you ever know Golda Meir?" he asked. "Konrad Adenauer? I knew them well. Great people...
Apparently written in 1818, when Franz was 27, the work shows the unmistakable influence of the concertos written by the elder Mozart a generation before. But then so did most everything written in the post-Mozart era. What is interesting about Franz's concerto is the way it has absorbed some of the innovations of Beethoven and Weber and gone on to anticipate some of the expressive, warm-blooded styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly...